Every Child Ready to Read

The Ida Rupp youth services staff is dedicated to sharing with parents their vital role as their child's first and greatest teacher in preparation for kindergarten. 

Every story time presented revolves around one of the following pre-reading skills:  

1.  Narrative Skills: being able to describe things and events and tell stories

2.  Print Motivation: being interested in and enjoying books

3.  Vocabulary: knowing the names of things

4.  Phonological Awareness: being able to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words

5.  Letter Knowledge:  knowing letters are different from each other, knowing their names and sounds and recognizing letters everywhere

6.  Print Awareness: noticing print, knowing how to handle a book and knowing how to follow the words on a page

For more information, check out the following websites: 

Every Child Ready to Read @ your library
a joint project from the Public Library Association and the Association of Library Services to Children

Birth to Six
Booklists and video finger plays from Hennepin County Library in Minnesota